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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Container reqs
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:20:19 +0200
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Jean-Marc Bourguet <jbourguet@free.fr> wrote in message
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> I'm not for making a container "threadsafe"  to the point where
> several tasks may modify the container without providing their
> synchronisation.
> In my experience
>    * most containers are accessed only by one task
>    * for those who are not, an explicit synchronisation is needed for
> other
>      purpose as the container is not the only part member of the
> datastructure
>      which has to be modified atomically.
>

I agree, that we should not attempt to  make everything protected.

Ehud